Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS

Maximize velocity and optimize resources with System z workloads

IBM® Tivoli® Workload Scheduler for z/OS® enables you to automate, plan and control the processing of IBM System z® workloads. When combined with IBM® Workload Automation, it includes and integrates workloads, tasks and processes for distributed environments – as well as enterprise applications.

It functions as a virtual control point and allows you to intervene manually as required – giving you full control over service execution.

Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS:

Aggregates and centrally manages workloads—using business policies. It drives cross-enterprise, heterogeneous workloads to support your business goals and service levels.

Acts as a business processes integration hub—with a highly scalable and highly available workload automation backbone.

Uses Cloud and Mobile technology— to help minimize fixed costs and simplify business unit projects.

Aggregates and centrally manages workloads

Provides calendar and event-based workload automation and prioritizes workload execution to help meet Service Level Agreements. Move from a static, platform-based approach to a flexible, service-driven environment.

Proactively monitors and manages workloads by exception. Can correlate and filter near real-time events and analyze historical data by creating reports.

Notifies you when unusual conditions occur in the infrastructure or batch scheduling activity and provides self-healing capabilities and automated recovery.

Simplifies management and troubleshooting with a single point of control. Provides a modern Web-browser based console, with dashboards and graphical views of your production plan and progress.

Assembles long chains of execution across multiple environments with cross dependencies.

Acts as a business process integration hub

Allows planning for hundreds of thousands of jobs, resolves interdependencies and launches and tracks each job. Maps all unattended business processes with great accuracy.

Minimizes idle time and improves production flow by automatically processing heterogeneous workloads according to business policies.

Provides business continuity and integrity with a hot standby architecture, alternate workstation definition and backup plans.

Fully integrates with IBM® Tivoli® System Automation for z/OS® to manage and control system resources within a single workflow and Tivoli Enterprise Portal to monitor workloads and resources in a broader system management context through a common interface.

Fully integrates with Workload Manager for dynamic routing of workloads to System z resources. This helps optimize workload velocity and IT resource use.

Offers out-of-the box integration with big data analytics and business intelligence software. It constitutes the business process integration hub that connects applications and data sources across mainframe, distributed servers and cloud.

Supports the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration standard protocol to easily integrate with other tools in the software delivery lifecycle.

Provides automated incident creation for ended-in-error jobs, using the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration protocol.

Enables for direct access to production job logs and historical runs through out-of-the-box integration with IBM® Tivoli® Output Manager.

Uses Cloud and Mobile technology

Takes advantage of the elastic capabilities of the cloud and enables organizations to expand or shrink their distributed system resource investment levels in real time based on changing business needs.

Provides the right level of flexibility to move applications into the cloud or trigger the provisioning of additional distributed servers to assist with a peak demand.

Offers self-service catalog on mobile devices for business users to autonomously trigger business services requests and monitor the results.

Offers self-service dashboards on mobile devices for business users to autonomously have a health check view of workload automation environment.